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Meanings of sugar of lead in English

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acetat de plom

Lead(II) salt of acetic acid; a white crystalline substance with a sweetish taste.

        acetat de plom
        Usage of sugar of lead in English
        1
        Use one teaspoonful of sugar of lead to one quart of water.
        Fowler's Household Helps / Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps Ab...
        2
        A wash of weak sugar of lead water, is also good for burns.
        Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepe...
        3
        Besides sulphur there was sugar of lead in it and tincture of nux vomica and bay rum.
        Heart of the West
        4
        Take of sugar of lead, 1 oz.
        Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
        5
        The copperas acts very much like sugar of lead and in some cases is very much more effective.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        6
        But best of all is a wash of strong alcohol in which is a little sugar of lead as an antiseptic.
        Woodland Tales
        7
        Dissolve a tea-spoonful of sugar of lead in water, and pour the clear solution into a decanter or large glass bottle.
        A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events ...
        8
        There is no trace; of sweetness in the constituents of sugar of lead, or of blueness in the constituents of blue vitriol.
        Theism or Atheism: The Great Alternative
        9
        Ferrous and ferric acetates are used as mordants; normal lead acetate is known in commerce as sugar of lead (q.v.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        10
        Moisten a slice of wheat bread with sugar of lead, or pearl-ash water; bind it on, and keep wetting it as it becomes dry.
        Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepe...
        11
        For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
        The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
        12
        Tea-roses are not red nor Neapolitan violets blue; sugar is only sweet to those unversed in metaphysics, and sugar of lead not even to them.
        Without Prejudice
        13
        The following is also recommended as a good cooling compound for heavy bearings:-Tallow2 lb., plumbage 6 oz., sugar of lead 4 oz.
        Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and S...
        14
        Sugar of lead is best for delicate greens, blues and tans.
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        15
        "And now, little miss, hurry- sugarof lead bandages till evening."
        The Indian Lily and Other Stories
        16
        "You know Mrs. Carlyle said that Owen's sweetness reminded her of sugar of lead."
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